starting up in rxvt ?

Sun Aug 3 19:36:00 GMT 2003

fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
>Do not start with a bash process. If you try starting things with
>> Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash
>>that will start a rxvt terminal which reads ~/.bashrc. If you try
>> Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i
>>that will start a rxvt terminal which reads /etc/profile then
>~/.bash_profile.
>>After "rxvt" but before "-e" insert switches for rxvt if you want them,
>like -bg blue -fg yellow and that sort of thing.
>>All this assumes you are not running XWin. If you have previously set
>DISPLAY and have started XWin using start XWin -multiwindow, then you can
>start a rxvt session as above prefixed with the command "run ".
>>Fergus
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Hello,
I read the FAQ on "is there an alternative to standard console window?", 
and pulled the |/usr/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-<ver>.README|. before I emailed.
 I did not realise I could call rxvt from windows I thought it had to be 
called & executed from bash.
Thank you for putting me right. I have tried it ....
 Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i
does just what I want
Cheers
Dave
 :-) 
PS have another problem, will post seperate query !
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